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Birthday August 15, 1907

• The temperature on August 15, 1907 was between 12.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 21st president of the republic of Panamá († 1988)
• 1902 » Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic († 1943)
• 1904 » George Klein, Canadian inventor, invented the motorized wheelchair († 1992)
• 1909 » Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader († 1973)
• 1912 » Julia Child, American chef and author († 2004)
• 1912 » Wendy Hiller, English actress († 2003)